Thursday, May 03, 2012

How this headlinewashes out is beyond me but having a total of 27 percent support for anything means you have a lot of opposition.

Asked what federal party is best at making decisions in the long-term
interests of Canada, 27 per cent cited the Conservative Party, 21 per
cent pointed to the NDP and 17 per cent lauded the Liberal Party.

But Nik Nanos, President of Nanos Research, noted a large swath of
respondents were either undecided or didn’t answer – showing that no
party has a clear advantage.

But that's not the lede. This is how the story started.

Canadians hold greatest trust in the Conservatives for making the right
decisions in the country's interests — but they think the NDP does the
best job of representing voters’ views, according to a newly released
online survey by Nanos Research.

A grade 4 arithmetic teacher would have a tough time accepting that conclusion since, of those who answered the question, 38 percent do not trust the Harperites and 35 percent were unwilling to answer. In short, 73 percent of Canadians expressed no trust in the Conservatives at all.